| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
161.60 |
1.0800 |
0.2453 |
129 |
2 |
126.32 |
2012-04-29 |
| 2. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
159.64 |
1.0753 |
0.2477 |
206 |
2 |
150.76 |
2012-04-29 |
| 3. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
154.14 |
0.9854 |
0.2865 |
174 |
2 |
137.84 |
2011-01-08 |
| 4. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
152.81 |
1.0042 |
0.2515 |
168 |
2 |
132.27 |
2013-04-25 |
| 5. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
150.32 |
1.0698 |
0.1760 |
303 |
2 |
141.53 |
2013-04-25 |
| 6. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
149.50 |
1.0135 |
0.2219 |
358 |
3 |
136.38 |
2010-12-10 |
| 7. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
148.54 |
0.9963 |
0.2255 |
274 |
2 |
142.20 |
2012-04-29 |
| 8. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
146.43 |
1.0672 |
0.1383 |
239 |
1 |
146.43 |
2010-11-11 |
| 9. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
144.36 |
1.0427 |
0.1477 |
269 |
1 |
144.36 |
2010-12-15 |
| 10. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
142.97 |
1.0338 |
0.1495 |
277 |
1 |
142.97 |
2010-11-11 |
| 11. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
140.90 |
1.0538 |
0.1194 |
367 |
1 |
140.90 |
2011-11-17 |
| 12. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
140.36 |
1.0333 |
0.1180 |
176 |
1 |
140.36 |
2012-04-29 |
| 13. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
139.42 |
0.9987 |
0.1543 |
236 |
1 |
139.42 |
2011-10-24 |
| 14. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
139.31 |
0.9804 |
0.1675 |
227 |
2 |
128.47 |
2012-04-29 |
| 15. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
139.17 |
0.9885 |
0.1582 |
355 |
1 |
139.17 |
2012-04-29 |
| 16. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
138.75 |
0.9981 |
0.1441 |
211 |
1 |
138.75 |
2011-11-17 |
| 17. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
138.58 |
1.0481 |
0.0859 |
255 |
1 |
138.58 |
2013-04-25 |
| 18. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
137.37 |
1.0800 |
0.0487 |
213 |
2 |
131.34 |
2012-04-29 |
| 19. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
136.04 |
1.0131 |
0.1109 |
245 |
2 |
130.02 |
2011-11-22 |
| 20. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
136.02 |
1.0283 |
0.0988 |
272 |
1 |
136.02 |
2010-12-06 |
| 21. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
135.07 |
1.0543 |
0.0592 |
233 |
1 |
135.07 |
2012-02-28 |
| 22. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
134.67 |
1.0759 |
0.0390 |
273 |
1 |
134.67 |
2010-12-08 |
| 23. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
134.40 |
1.0615 |
0.0425 |
201 |
1 |
134.40 |
2012-04-29 |
| 24. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
133.84 |
0.9915 |
0.1100 |
281 |
1 |
133.84 |
2010-12-08 |
| 25. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
133.81 |
1.0432 |
0.0596 |
276 |
1 |
133.81 |
2010-12-10 |
| 26. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
133.36 |
1.0792 |
0.0241 |
251 |
1 |
133.36 |
2011-10-24 |
| 27. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
132.79 |
0.9673 |
0.1286 |
292 |
2 |
130.60 |
2010-12-25 |
| 28. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
132.72 |
1.0139 |
0.0922 |
349 |
1 |
132.72 |
2011-01-08 |
| 29. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
132.66 |
0.9974 |
0.0913 |
163 |
1 |
132.66 |
2010-12-25 |
| 30. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
132.38 |
1.0576 |
0.0299 |
231 |
1 |
132.38 |
2010-12-06 |
| 31. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
132.34 |
0.9194 |
0.1811 |
360 |
1 |
132.34 |
2012-04-29 |
| 32. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
132.16 |
0.9809 |
0.1154 |
250 |
2 |
116.72 |
2010-12-06 |
| 33. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
131.91 |
1.1138 |
-0.0189 |
341 |
1 |
131.91 |
2013-04-25 |
| 34. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
131.78 |
1.0676 |
0.0223 |
456 |
1 |
131.78 |
2010-12-15 |
| 35. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
131.77 |
0.9339 |
0.1572 |
317 |
1 |
131.77 |
2011-01-08 |
| 36. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
131.66 |
1.0301 |
0.0529 |
268 |
1 |
131.66 |
2010-12-06 |
| 37. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
131.48 |
1.0265 |
0.0601 |
375 |
1 |
131.48 |
2010-12-25 |
| 38. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
130.38 |
0.9918 |
0.0890 |
400 |
2 |
129.03 |
2011-10-24 |
| 39. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
129.53 |
1.0033 |
0.0637 |
203 |
2 |
120.33 |
2010-12-25 |
| 40. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
129.31 |
1.0464 |
0.0242 |
213 |
2 |
128.71 |
2010-12-15 |
| 41. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
129.03 |
0.9658 |
0.1005 |
308 |
1 |
129.03 |
2011-01-08 |
| 42. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
128.73 |
1.0638 |
-0.0057 |
247 |
1 |
128.73 |
2010-12-10 |
| 43. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
128.30 |
1.0052 |
0.0627 |
400 |
1 |
128.30 |
2011-10-24 |
| 44. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
128.17 |
1.0132 |
0.0428 |
371 |
1 |
128.17 |
2013-04-25 |
| 45. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
127.84 |
0.9698 |
0.0879 |
389 |
1 |
127.84 |
2011-01-08 |
| 46. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
127.66 |
1.0010 |
0.0541 |
213 |
1 |
127.66 |
2010-12-06 |
| 47. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
127.38 |
1.0287 |
0.0191 |
269 |
1 |
127.38 |
2012-02-28 |
| 48. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
127.15 |
0.9931 |
0.0500 |
218 |
1 |
127.15 |
2010-12-25 |
| 49. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
127.12 |
1.0419 |
0.0079 |
341 |
1 |
127.12 |
2010-12-06 |
| 50. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
127.02 |
1.0472 |
-0.0076 |
149 |
1 |
127.02 |
2015-07-10 |
| 51. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
126.11 |
0.9324 |
0.1186 |
440 |
2 |
117.92 |
2011-11-17 |
| 52. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
125.57 |
0.9810 |
0.0579 |
362 |
1 |
125.57 |
2012-04-29 |
| 53. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
125.42 |
1.0094 |
0.0234 |
256 |
1 |
125.42 |
2010-12-11 |
| 54. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
125.38 |
0.9332 |
0.0991 |
267 |
2 |
117.67 |
2010-12-06 |
| 55. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
125.35 |
0.9545 |
0.0873 |
412 |
2 |
120.72 |
2010-12-11 |
| 56. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
125.10 |
1.0471 |
-0.0049 |
406 |
1 |
125.10 |
2012-04-29 |
| 57. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
124.74 |
0.9029 |
0.1268 |
393 |
1 |
124.74 |
2012-04-29 |
| 58. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
124.52 |
0.9839 |
0.0411 |
308 |
1 |
124.52 |
2010-12-08 |
| 59. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
123.76 |
1.0392 |
-0.0153 |
258 |
1 |
123.76 |
2010-12-06 |
| 60. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
123.09 |
1.0060 |
0.0081 |
225 |
1 |
123.09 |
2010-12-10 |
| 61. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
123.00 |
1.0350 |
-0.0079 |
416 |
1 |
123.00 |
2010-12-06 |
| 62. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
122.37 |
1.0370 |
-0.0298 |
262 |
1 |
122.37 |
2010-12-06 |
| 63. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
122.28 |
0.9543 |
0.0592 |
265 |
2 |
111.78 |
2010-12-08 |
| 64. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
122.19 |
1.0697 |
-0.0544 |
341 |
1 |
122.19 |
2010-12-08 |
| 65. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
121.03 |
0.9706 |
0.0374 |
353 |
1 |
121.03 |
2010-12-25 |
| 66. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
120.57 |
1.0507 |
-0.0528 |
253 |
1 |
120.57 |
2013-04-25 |
| 67. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
120.25 |
1.0320 |
-0.0362 |
401 |
1 |
120.25 |
2010-12-06 |
| 68. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
120.22 |
1.0466 |
-0.0574 |
230 |
1 |
120.22 |
2010-12-25 |
| 69. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
119.98 |
1.0067 |
-0.0054 |
422 |
1 |
119.98 |
2010-12-06 |
| 70. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
118.40 |
0.9517 |
0.0309 |
397 |
1 |
118.40 |
2011-11-17 |
| 71. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
118.27 |
1.0590 |
-0.0867 |
250 |
1 |
118.27 |
2010-12-06 |
| 72. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
118.18 |
0.8993 |
0.0762 |
366 |
2 |
101.84 |
2015-07-10 |
| 73. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
117.85 |
1.0264 |
-0.0606 |
191 |
2 |
113.53 |
2010-12-10 |
| 74. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
117.70 |
1.0059 |
-0.0360 |
283 |
1 |
117.70 |
2010-12-06 |
| 75. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
117.08 |
1.0567 |
-0.0934 |
314 |
2 |
110.16 |
2010-12-06 |
| 76. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
116.63 |
0.9996 |
-0.0322 |
483 |
1 |
116.63 |
2010-12-06 |
| 77. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
116.17 |
1.0414 |
-0.0863 |
234 |
1 |
116.17 |
2010-12-06 |
| 78. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
116.02 |
0.9603 |
0.0000 |
430 |
1 |
116.02 |
2012-04-29 |
| 79. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
115.78 |
1.0418 |
-0.0882 |
214 |
1 |
115.78 |
2010-12-08 |
| 80. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
115.35 |
1.0845 |
-0.1363 |
212 |
1 |
115.35 |
2010-12-06 |
| 81. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
115.18 |
0.9561 |
-0.0050 |
291 |
1 |
115.18 |
2010-11-11 |
| 82. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
114.99 |
0.8986 |
0.0460 |
205 |
2 |
111.11 |
2010-12-11 |
| 83. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
114.85 |
1.0125 |
-0.0689 |
232 |
1 |
114.85 |
2012-04-29 |
| 84. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
114.08 |
1.0036 |
-0.0639 |
277 |
1 |
114.08 |
2010-12-06 |
| 85. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
114.06 |
1.0412 |
-0.0976 |
205 |
2 |
107.61 |
2010-12-06 |
| 86. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
113.99 |
0.9403 |
0.0104 |
345 |
1 |
113.99 |
2010-12-10 |
| 87. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
113.97 |
1.1062 |
-0.1664 |
200 |
1 |
113.97 |
2011-11-17 |
| 88. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
113.63 |
0.9780 |
-0.0492 |
173 |
1 |
113.63 |
2010-12-11 |
| 89. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
113.58 |
0.9637 |
-0.0170 |
342 |
1 |
113.58 |
2011-11-17 |
| 90. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
112.92 |
1.0199 |
-0.0946 |
225 |
1 |
112.92 |
2010-11-11 |
| 91. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
112.87 |
1.0506 |
-0.1223 |
259 |
1 |
112.87 |
2010-12-10 |
| 92. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
112.74 |
0.9873 |
-0.0492 |
396 |
1 |
112.74 |
2011-10-24 |
| 93. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
112.74 |
1.0315 |
-0.1044 |
193 |
1 |
112.74 |
2010-12-25 |
| 94. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
111.91 |
0.9538 |
-0.0332 |
276 |
1 |
111.91 |
2011-01-08 |
| 95. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
111.02 |
1.0479 |
-0.1361 |
205 |
1 |
111.02 |
2010-12-06 |
| 96. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
110.43 |
0.9143 |
-0.0048 |
300 |
2 |
107.44 |
2010-12-08 |
| 97. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
110.30 |
0.9849 |
-0.0763 |
337 |
1 |
110.30 |
2010-12-08 |
| 98. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
110.16 |
0.8666 |
0.0372 |
206 |
1 |
110.16 |
2010-12-10 |
| 99. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
110.04 |
0.8856 |
0.0273 |
369 |
1 |
110.04 |
2012-04-29 |
| 100. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
109.67 |
0.9269 |
-0.0168 |
269 |
1 |
109.67 |
2010-12-08 |
| 101. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
109.42 |
0.9909 |
-0.0862 |
293 |
2 |
104.18 |
2011-11-22 |
| 102. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
109.35 |
1.0267 |
-0.1240 |
261 |
1 |
109.35 |
2010-12-06 |
| 103. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
108.49 |
0.9561 |
-0.0621 |
362 |
1 |
108.49 |
2010-12-06 |
| 104. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
108.24 |
0.9228 |
-0.0279 |
305 |
1 |
108.24 |
2010-12-25 |
| 105. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
107.97 |
0.9598 |
-0.0695 |
209 |
1 |
107.97 |
2010-11-11 |
| 106. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
107.92 |
1.0144 |
-0.1256 |
162 |
2 |
106.61 |
2010-12-10 |
| 107. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
107.34 |
0.9329 |
-0.0356 |
345 |
2 |
102.71 |
2011-11-17 |
| 108. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
105.91 |
0.9136 |
-0.0392 |
348 |
1 |
105.91 |
2012-02-28 |
| 109. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
105.66 |
0.9402 |
-0.0731 |
310 |
1 |
105.66 |
2010-11-11 |
| 110. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
105.04 |
0.9500 |
-0.0844 |
287 |
1 |
105.04 |
2011-11-17 |
| 111. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
103.69 |
0.9761 |
-0.1189 |
227 |
2 |
96.38 |
2010-12-08 |
| 112. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
103.69 |
0.8974 |
-0.0328 |
365 |
1 |
103.69 |
2010-12-06 |
| 113. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
103.07 |
0.9809 |
-0.1373 |
209 |
1 |
103.07 |
2010-12-06 |
| 114. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
102.92 |
0.9935 |
-0.1450 |
217 |
1 |
102.92 |
2010-12-06 |
| 115. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
102.17 |
1.0181 |
-0.1767 |
276 |
1 |
102.17 |
2010-12-06 |
| 116. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
102.00 |
0.9392 |
-0.0944 |
360 |
1 |
102.00 |
2010-12-06 |
| 117. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
101.13 |
0.9206 |
-0.0886 |
317 |
1 |
101.13 |
2010-12-11 |
| 118. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
100.62 |
0.9271 |
-0.0974 |
323 |
2 |
97.82 |
2010-12-25 |
| 119. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
99.32 |
0.9650 |
-0.1458 |
347 |
1 |
99.32 |
2015-07-10 |
| 120. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
98.94 |
0.9422 |
-0.1340 |
190 |
1 |
98.94 |
2011-11-17 |
| 121. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
98.16 |
0.9123 |
-0.0961 |
351 |
1 |
98.16 |
2010-12-06 |
| 122. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
96.87 |
0.9400 |
-0.1412 |
434 |
1 |
96.87 |
2010-11-11 |
| 123. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
93.60 |
0.9380 |
-0.1704 |
284 |
1 |
93.60 |
2010-12-25 |
| 124. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
93.41 |
0.9787 |
-0.2078 |
364 |
1 |
93.41 |
2010-12-06 |
| 125. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
90.82 |
0.9265 |
-0.1815 |
254 |
1 |
90.82 |
2011-11-22 |
| 126. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
90.56 |
0.9763 |
-0.2329 |
143 |
1 |
90.56 |
2013-04-25 |
| 127. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
86.03 |
1.0095 |
-0.3045 |
211 |
1 |
86.03 |
2010-12-06 |
| 128. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
83.92 |
1.0426 |
-0.3577 |
131 |
1 |
83.92 |
2012-04-29 |
| 129. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
83.40 |
1.0836 |
-0.3956 |
206 |
1 |
83.40 |
2012-02-28 |
| 130. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
80.88 |
0.8328 |
-0.1655 |
343 |
1 |
80.88 |
2010-12-10 |